Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that govern it. In particular, there is the long-standing question of whether or ...